+The Brat Pack Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache" Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly! Link to comment
+keehotee Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache" Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly! Seems to be in at least one dictionary already –verbsimple past tense and past participle of favorite. Personally - as the English language has spent the past thousand years (at least) in a state of flux and constant evolution - I'd be more concerned with the use of upper case at the beginning of each word....but that's not a language issue Link to comment
+agentmancuso Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I think favo(u)rited is a reasonable enough neologism. The verbal concept of "marking something a a favo(u)rite" is new, so an accompanying evolution of language is only to be expected. Link to comment
+JeremyR Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 One thing is for sure, if Groundspeak went with 'favourite' there would be much more angst over it from our American chums than there will be over 'favorite' from the Brits Maybe Groundspeak should add English (UK) to their available localisations (and fix that blummin' MM/DD/YYYY date issue at the same time ) Link to comment
+jon.hemlock.Chantal Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache" Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly! This is rather ironic, considering that the title of your thread has the word "langauge" in it, instead of language Link to comment
+The Brat Pack Posted December 28, 2010 Author Share Posted December 28, 2010 I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache" Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly! This is rather ironic, considering that the title of your thread has the word "langauge" in it, instead of language It is amazing how many Google hits this spelling error picks up! Link to comment
+dfx Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 now with this much bickering going on, i'm sure you haven't been friended by a lot of people. :lol: :laughing: Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"? MrsB Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"? MrsB Absolutely nothing at all Link to comment
+Pieman Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I think that using "favorite" as a verb is just full of awesomeness. Link to comment
+JeremyR Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Borrowing/paraphrasing from another forum in a thread on this very matter: I've never met a noun that couldn't be verbed. Link to comment
+keehotee Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"? MrsB ...or even "added to my favourites list"? We've all got the time and energy to root around in bushes for boxes for hours - why do we even need to come up with new words to save typing? Link to comment
+jon.hemlock.Chantal Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"? MrsB How 'bout "flavoured" ? Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 As I said on t'other topic, what's wrong with simply using "favoured"? MrsB How 'bout "flavoured" ? Yeah... but, no... but... yeah, but... then we'd have to favour our favourite flavours of caches and it could get complicated. (Ours would be have to be "Orange Crush" I think.) MrsB Link to comment
+GAZ Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Hmmm....words in the English language....to be honest, it doesn't bother me the differences between the US and the UK ways of spelling, what REALLY annoys me is the amount of "text speak" that still goes on, on the likes of Facebook etc, not so much on cache logs, thankfully. Also punctuation.......another bug-bear of mine. This day and age, with "qwerty" keyboards on mobiles, there is really no excuse for not using punctuation. Just a short story to make you smile:- Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Gaz Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 ...or even "added to my favourites list"? We've all got the time and energy to root around in bushes for boxes for hours - why do we even need to come up with new words to save typing? What we need is an acronym , and I think you've hit the nail on the head; ATMFL to go with TNLN TFTC Bingo. Link to comment
+John Stead Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Hmmm....words in the English language....to be honest, it doesn't bother me the differences between the US and the UK ways of spelling, what REALLY annoys me is the amount of "text speak" that still goes on, on the likes of Facebook etc, not so much on cache logs, thankfully. Also punctuation.......another bug-bear of mine. This day and age, with "qwerty" keyboards on mobiles, there is really no excuse for not using punctuation. Gaz Amen to that - but then I think Gaz and I are from a similar generation, in Geocaching years at least! Link to comment
+Phil100 Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 It is amazing how many Google hits this spelling error picks up! Apparently, you can get some really good bargains on eBay by searching using "spelling mistakes"! Link to comment
team tisri Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache" Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly! Seems to be in at least one dictionary already –verbsimple past tense and past participle of favorite. Personally - as the English language has spent the past thousand years (at least) in a state of flux and constant evolution - I'd be more concerned with the use of upper case at the beginning of each word....but that's not a language issue It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse. Link to comment
+keehotee Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 I have just come across the following phrase on the Groundspeak website - "Users Who Favorited This Cache" Ugh! Why can they not use our language properly! Seems to be in at least one dictionary already –verbsimple past tense and past participle of favorite. Personally - as the English language has spent the past thousand years (at least) in a state of flux and constant evolution - I'd be more concerned with the use of upper case at the beginning of each word....but that's not a language issue It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse. :laughing: Link to comment
+agentmancuso Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse. Link to comment
+CnJnA Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Is that the guy that eats, shoots and leaves, or the other chap who eats shoots and leaves?.... Link to comment
+currykev Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 It could be a language issue. It's said that capitalisation makes the difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse. I got tossed off a horse once! But that's another story. Link to comment
+geohatter Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Right, I think it's time to close this thread as it's gone way off topic. If anyone wants to carry it on please feel free to use the Off Topic forum. Link to comment
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